Re: [patch 28/30] x86/microcode: Handle "offline" CPUs correctly

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, Aug 11 2023 at 03:19, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 10 2023 at 16:02, Ashok Raj wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 12:29:57AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> 
>>> Yeah, not placing constraints on who is online at all. Also, if both
>>> siblings are offline, then onlining will re-load ucode anyway, no?
>>
>> We need one thread in a core online,  because a MCE can happen and we don't
>> want those running something stale.
>
> Nonsense. This is a constraint at boot time. But afterwards it does not
> matter at all. That's what Peter is talking about.

And worse. It does not matter whether one thread of a core is online or
not in the case of a broadcast MCE during a microcode update simply
because that's game over.

Thanks,

        tglx